Newham · E16 · Bath and shower screen fitting
Same-week slots · Fully insured · Local Custom House fitters · Fixed written pricesBath and shower screen fitting for Custom House (E16) households — 3,330 of them, 50% in flats. From £110 fixed, one fitter for a pivot or fixed screen; two for sliding and bi-fold enclosures and any wet-room panel over 190cm, which is awkward to hold plumb alone Insured fitters, CE-marked toughened glass and every seal tooled clean.
Overview
Booked mostly by social-housing-led households around Custom House, bath and shower screen fitting here covers supply-free fitting from £110. With 50% of Custom House's 3,330 homes in flats, lift access and stair carries in E16 shape the slot length we hold.
How it works
Step 1
Bath, tray or wet-room floor measured, and how far out of level it is checked before ordering, so packers and shims are ready on the day.
Step 2
Positions marked, then pilot-drilled slowly into the glaze with a masonry bit rated for porcelain, which is the step that stops tiles cracking.
Step 3
Hinges, tracks or channels fixed and packed so the screen itself reads level even when the bath edge does not.
Step 4
Neutral-cure silicone run to the tile and the bath or tray, tooled to a clean bead and left to cure before use.
Step 5
Door or panel run through its full movement, checked for drips at the seal, and off-cuts and packaging removed.
Why choose us
One fitter for a pivot or fixed screen; two for sliding and bi-fold enclosures and any wet-room panel over 190cm, which is awkward to hold plumb alone. Construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts.
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show. Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR) is the nearest station, so a E16 visit rarely needs a whole morning set aside.
We expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — the reality on the streets around Custom House station and Victoria Dock in E16, and we carry the anchors, through-fixings and long bits that match. The mistake we spend most time undoing here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 3,330 households inside the E16 neighbourhood.
Fitters carry £5m public liability cover, and every screen fitted is CE-marked toughened safety glass to BS EN 12150 — the standard that means it crumbles into small granules rather than shards if it ever fails.
Fixed prices
| Job | From | Typical time | What sets the price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pivot screen on a bath | £110 | 1–1.5 hrs | The hinge post is packed and shimmed to a bath edge that is rarely dead level, then silicone-sealed to the tile. |
| Fixed bath screen with return panel | £150 | 1.5–2 hrs | Two panels and a bracing bar have to be squared to each other before either is sealed, or the return panel gapes. |
| Sliding shower door on a tray | £190 | 2–3 hrs | The track is fixed to the wall tiles and the tray upstand, both drilled without cracking porcelain, then the rollers are set to run true. |
| Bi-fold shower door, enclosure | £220 | 2.5–3.5 hrs | Two hinged leaves fold flush without fouling the tray lip, which takes more adjustment than a single sliding panel. |
| Wet-room glass panel, floor-fixed | £240 | 3–4 hrs | No frame to hide behind: the channel and the panel both have to be perfectly plumb against a screeded fall. |
| Re-silicone an existing screen or bath edge | £65 | 45–75 min | Old silicone is cut out, the substrate dried and re-sealed — the single most common reason a bathroom starts to smell of damp. |
Pivot screen on a bath
£110 · 1–1.5 hrs
The hinge post is packed and shimmed to a bath edge that is rarely dead level, then silicone-sealed to the tile.
Fixed bath screen with return panel
£150 · 1.5–2 hrs
Two panels and a bracing bar have to be squared to each other before either is sealed, or the return panel gapes.
Sliding shower door on a tray
£190 · 2–3 hrs
The track is fixed to the wall tiles and the tray upstand, both drilled without cracking porcelain, then the rollers are set to run true.
Bi-fold shower door, enclosure
£220 · 2.5–3.5 hrs
Two hinged leaves fold flush without fouling the tray lip, which takes more adjustment than a single sliding panel.
Wet-room glass panel, floor-fixed
£240 · 3–4 hrs
No frame to hide behind: the channel and the panel both have to be perfectly plumb against a screeded fall.
Re-silicone an existing screen or bath edge
£65 · 45–75 min
Old silicone is cut out, the substrate dried and re-sealed — the single most common reason a bathroom starts to smell of damp.
Prices are fitting labour with sealant and standard fixings included; the screen or door itself is supplied by you or ordered at cost. Every screen fitted is CE-marked toughened safety glass to BS EN 12150. Tanking or waterproofing repairs behind existing tiles are quoted separately once uncovered. Permits, ULEZ and the Congestion Charge where they apply are itemised.
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Working in Custom House
The E16 stock around Custom House station and Victoria Dock is post-war. ONS records 50% flats, 50% houses and 3,330 households in Custom House.
Owner-occupation runs at 26% in Custom House, so alongside the 24% rental churn there is steady planned work — refurbishments, downsizes and probate clearances booked weeks ahead.
Expect often with surface conduit, over precast concrete panels and dense blockwork — the reality on the streets around Custom House station and Victoria Dock behind the plaster in E16. That is why fixings are picked in the room rather than off a van shelf, and why drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 3,330 households inside the E16 neighbourhood is the fault we are called back to undo.
Anyone who knows Custom House knows the pattern near Custom House station and Victoria Dock: regeneration streets between the docks and Canning Town, transformed by the Elizabeth line. We plan the E16 visit around it. Custom House is outside the Congestion Charge zone but inside ULEZ; our vehicles are compliant, so nothing is added for it.
Construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts. Nearest station is Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR), and one fitter for a pivot or fixed screen; two for sliding and bi-fold enclosures and any wet-room panel over 190cm, which is awkward to hold plumb alone.
Area at a glance
Who lives in Custom House and what they live in decides how bath and shower screen fitting is quoted and how long a visit takes. These are the published Census 2021 figures for the Custom House neighbourhood itself — not Newham-wide averages, and not estimates.
9,552
Residents
Custom House neighbourhood, Census 2021
3,330
Households
Median age 32.9
Flats vs houses
Residents by sex
Single-person households
26%
Privately rented
24.4%
Source: ONS Census 2021 via Nomis (TS008, TS041, TS007A, TS044, TS054, TS003), MSOA geography. Figures cover the ONS neighbourhood Custom House (E02000749) — the published geography that covers Custom House, not the whole borough. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names (OGL). Coordinates for the E16 district: 51.5103, 0.0301 — Outward postcode centroid, postcodes.io (Ordnance Survey Open Data).
Pivot screen on a bath starts at £110 in Custom House across E16, with 50% of homes here being flats — and 26% owner-occupation locally, and every job is quoted as a fixed written price before a fitter is booked. Screen type and how far out of level the bath, tray or floor sits around Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR). A packed-and-shimmed pivot screen is quick; a floor-fixed wet-room panel with no frame to hide the gap takes the longest to get plumb in this 50% flats neighbourhood, with a median age of 33 in this neighbourhood.
Yes — a pivot screen is £110. Cast-iron and reglazed baths in Custom House's older stock are rarely level along the rim in this 50% flats neighbourhood — and 26% owner-occupation locally, with 50% of homes here being flats, so the hinge post is packed and shimmed until the screen itself reads plumb. The problem we fix most here is drilling blind into a panel with reinforcement or a buried cable behind it on these streets — the pattern behind 3,330 households inside the E16 neighbourhood around Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR) — and 24% of E16 homes being privately rented, with 3,330 households on this patch.
Yes, with a slow pilot hole and a bit rated for porcelain rather than standard masonry for Custom House (E16) addresses, with Custom House station and Victoria Dock a few streets away. Cracked glaze is the most common DIY mistake we're called to fix in Custom House bathrooms on the Custom House rounds, with 50% of Custom House homes being houses.
Yes, from £65. With 50% of Custom House homes being flats, poor bathroom ventilation is common; we strip the old silicone fully, dry the substrate and reseal with neutral-cure sealant so it doesn't come back within a season in Custom House — and 3,330 households on this patch, with this being London Borough of Newham territory.
All three. With 24% of Custom House privately rented and 26% owner-occupied, roughly half the E16 diary is agent- or landlord-instructed and invoiced separately from the person at the door in Custom House — and 50% of Custom House homes being houses, with 26% one-person households here.
Custom House station and Victoria Dock is the marker we route to in Custom House, with 49% social-rented stock nearby, and construction diversions, estate service roads and new blocks with booked lifts. A E16 slot added to an existing Newham round usually lands the same week rather than the next for Custom House (E16) addresses, with 50% of Custom House homes being houses.
Most bookings are within a week, sooner for a re-seal call where damp has already started to show on E16 jobs, with 24% of E16 homes being privately rented. Custom House sits close to Custom House (Elizabeth line, DLR) on the Custom House rounds — and 50% of homes here being flats, with Custom House station and Victoria Dock a few streets away, so we can usually add a E16 job to an existing Newham round at short notice.
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Two ways to go: price it yourself on the quote page, or pick a slot on the live booking calendar. Custom House E16 jobs are confirmed in writing before anyone travels, and the same crew covers the rest of newham.
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